essakrishnachaitanya - Checkout Subscription duration | Stripe Developers | Page 1

soft dawn Jul 18, 2022, 2:25 PM

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Hello, good question. Checking in to whether Checkout can set this automatically

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It looks like Checkout can't specify this from the start but you can listen to the checkout.session.succeeded event or the customer.subscription.created event and update the subscription's cancel_at timestamp to tell stripe when to end the subscription.

orchid marsh Jul 18, 2022, 2:33 PM

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can you please send me sample example of checkout.session.succeeded and customer.subscription.created event in javascript

soft dawn Jul 18, 2022, 2:35 PM

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We have a guide on handling them but I am not seeing example values, checking if we have that... https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/fulfill-orders#create-event-handler

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It looks like we don't but you can see how an event object is structured here[1] and how the checkout object on it will look here[2]
[1] https://stripe.com/docs/api/events/object
[2] https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/object

orchid marsh Jul 18, 2022, 3:04 PM

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How to create a subscription schedule with iterations on stripe checkout..?

soft dawn Jul 18, 2022, 3:07 PM

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Unfortunately Checkout cannot create a subscription schedule by itself. To use a schedule like this, you can listen to those same webhook events and create a schedule from an existing subscription https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#existing-subscription

orchid marsh Jul 18, 2022, 3:08 PM

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okay from plain javascript how to create a schedule subscription..?

soft dawn Jul 18, 2022, 3:09 PM

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That doc has a snippet for how to make that call in Node.js

  from_subscription: 'sub_GB98WOvaRAWPl6'
});```

orchid marsh Jul 18, 2022, 3:11 PM

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okay our requirement is we need to create a subscription for user for a specified duration in javascript

soft dawn Jul 18, 2022, 3:16 PM

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Makes sense, in your scenario, that would mean that you create the Checkout Session, listen for the appropriate webhook, and then when you get that webhook you can either:

Calculate when you want the subscription to end and make and API call to set the cancels_at timestamp on your subscriptions
Make an API call to create a subscription schedule from the subscription that your Checkout Session created and then another API call to set how many iterations you want the subscription to last for

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